Nine of Pentacles
self-sufficiency · comfort earned · independence · a garden
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- self-sufficiency
- comfort earned
- independence
- a garden
A woman alone in a rich garden with a falcon on her wrist. Independence, comfort earned, enjoying what you built.
Upright
- Everything
- A woman alone in a rich garden with a falcon on her wrist. Independence, comfort earned, enjoying what you built.
- Love
- Happy in your own company; a partner is welcome, not needed. Self-respect first.
- Work
- Success through your own discipline. Freelance, ownership, work on your terms.
- Money
- Financial independence. Enjoy the garden; you planted it.
- Myself
- You have made a life that is yours. Sit in it a while.
Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 264
Reversed
- Everything
- Comfort without independence, or independence without comfort. Living on show, or on someone else.
- Love
- Loneliness in luxury, or dependence dressed as love.
- Work
- Working for the image, not the freedom. Or a setback to your self-made position.
- Money
- Spending to look wealthy. Or a loss that shows the garden had a fence you did not see.
- Myself
- Self-worth tied to possessions. The falcon is yours without the gown.
Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 264
The card, as Waite described it
A woman, with a bird upon her wrist, stands amidst a great abundance of grapevines in the garden of a manorial house. It is a wide domain, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own possession and testifies to material well-being.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 264
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.